I'll usually point the primary DNS of a DC to another DNS server. is there any record of it in teh mcdst folder? Should be under gc, dc , etc. is is the server registered as a name server in DNS? f not, manually add it, do a "diagnose and repair" on the NIC and restart the DNS server and client service and net logon.

Dear User,
Please set your Windows 2008 Server DNS1 to "192.168.1.4" and it's secondary address to "192.168.1.3". Then flush and registerdns using the commands:

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns

Then, please wait 5 minutes and check your DNS management list on your Windows 2003 Servers. If it appears in the management console on the 2003 servers, and it still does not appear in the Windows 2008 server, then you have misconfigured DNS server settings on the 2008 Server. This will surely cause your 2008 DC to fail replication. Once you resolve the DNS configuration issues on the 2008 server, your replication should work normally.

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You are not wrong. You missed the second part of my post, which is that if you make the changes I suggest and it works, then you have misconfigured DNS on the 2008 Server. You must check your configuration of DNS on the 2008 Server. It is apparently not configured correctly. In the meantime, you have two other DNS servers you can use, which appear to be working properly. It is best practice to always point your DNS servers at eachother. This way if one server is down, your other servers will still replicate properly.

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